Natsuki Ikezawa was born in Hokkaido. Formerly enrolled at Saitama University, he quit school to become a poet. He lived in Greece for three years in the mid-1970s. Presently he writes not only fiction but criticism and is an active public speaker as well. Of his works, Still Lives and A Burden of Flowers are available in English, and The Navidad Incident—winner of the Tanizaki Jun’ ichiro Prize—in German.

Unrated Critic Reviews for A Burden of Flowers

Publishers Weekly

A young Japanese woman struggles to spring her brother from an Indonesian prison in Ikezawa's latest, which begins when Kaoru Nishijima learns that her brother, Tez, has been arrested and imprisoned in Bali for heroin possession.

Book Reporter

In the
grip of heroin addiction, Tetsuro faces a moral as well as physical
burden from the choices he made, while Kaoru learns how to
influence her surroundings and those people in it by force of will.